Chandler Unified School District

Chandler Unified School District, a U.S. local government entity and K–12 school district headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, operates as a federal grant recipient (33% of recent awards) and sub-recipient (67%) delivering public education services aligned with federal academic and special-education standards. The district does not hold federal contracts and does not serve as a prime contractor; all federal revenue flows through direct grants from the Department of Education or sub-awards cascaded through the Arizona Department of Education.

Chandler Unified's federal footprint centers almost entirely on elementary and secondary education programming. As a direct grant recipient, the district holds annual Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060) from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with recent awards of $205,144 (award date July 1, 2026, completion June 30, 2027), $192,033 (July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026), $155,076 (July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025), and $128,004 (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024). These formula grants fund academic instruction, culturally responsive programming for American Indian and Alaska Native students, teacher professional development, and targeted student support services, with administrative costs capped at 5 percent and performance measures tied to reading and mathematics achievement, high school graduation rates, and culturally responsive activities.

The district's larger federal footprint arrives through sub-awards from the Arizona Department of Education. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 89 percent of recent awards, dominated by the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (40 awards), with the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (9 awards), the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (5 awards), and smaller participation from the Office of English Language Acquisition and the Department of Labor. Sub-awards flow in under Title I (supporting high-quality core instruction and intervention services at the district's eleven schoolwide Title I schools, with interventions including Lexia Core 5 and PowerUp), Title II (improving teacher quality grants), Title III (English Language Acquisition, with district implementation of Structured English Immersion models using Rosetta Stone and Lexia English), Title IV-A (student support and academic enrichment), IDEA Basic Section 611 (special education subgrants to LEAs), Section 619 (preschool subgrants), the Migrant Education Program (MEP, supporting migratory children ages 3–21 with targeted ELA and math instruction, credit recovery, English Language Development classes, enrichment, and community partnerships), and the Federal Food and Nutrition Program (FFVP). The district also receives sub-awards from the Arizona Department of Education for early childhood special education expansion and child-find screening, and from the Executive Office of the State of Arizona for summer enrichment programming.

The district has received 64 total federal awards (21 prime, 43 sub) since 2005, with combined obligated value of $123.7 million. Activity expanded from two awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2024, then plateaued at eleven awards in 2025 and nine in 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. All performance takes place in Chandler, Arizona.